Friday, October 02, 2009
Dies irae, dies illa -- Solvet saeclum in favilla
I have never put a movie trailer on this blog before and never will again. But these five-or-so minutes made me smile on a day when nothing could make me smile. And it works even better if you replace the sound with the really loud bits of the Berlioz Requiem.
Oddly enough, I have little desire to see the actual movie. Anything further could only spoil perfection.
Independence Day is forgiven. Even Godzilla is forgiven. One of these days I may tell you the story of how I played very small role in giving Roland Emmerich his start.
(If you feel inclined to masturbate, remember to use a hanky.)
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Tried and tried, but because I'm "on the road in semi-nowhere Southeast Asia and the internet here is a bit iffy, ... I'll have to wait to experience the much-needed smile. Well, the people here are very nice and we do smile, but ... I wanted to see it.
However, I have stumbled upon another. I think I can guarantee you will find it worthwhile. Just pics, no vid. Amazing. But perfection it is not.
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When I grew up in southern California, this scenario was widely bruited about among the kids at school. I guess we all got it from the adults (hard to imagine there was some general Zeitgeist that gave us those thoughts).
So I've been waiting decades to see it, and I am gratified to finally see such a striking realization of its graphic portrayal. Seriously.
However, still having Arnold (? sound-alike, anyway) as governor really stretches credulity, LOL!
XI
Finally saw it... by accident it was loading in a window forgotten for some hours.
Who's that guy hangs out with the Queen of England? God, he will **love** this. Oh, yeah, Filup.
If I knew his email address, I'd send it to him with the "If you feel inclined to masturbate, remember to use a hanky."
I wonder if he has a wide screen video in his Sanctum Sanatorium where they do the esoteric masonic highest degree kinda stuff.
Now the City of London. THAT would make me smile. And let's put Charles in the driver's seat. I'd like a shot of Tony Blair falling into an abyss while I'm at it.
No offense intended to the good people of the U.K.
"Saeclum", dammit.
Whaddaya mean, "forgive" Independence Day?! Independence Day is a hoot, and I'm only sorry I didn't discover it in time to see it on the big screen.
2012 looks like Independence Day on steroids, with John effin' Cusack to boot. What's not to love?
As for what the "mystics and statistics" have been predicting about the Big One and most of the West Coast dropping into the drink, I remember starting The Last Days of the Late Great State of California one cold winter night about three months after I'd moved to Los Angeles.
Couldn't put it down, so I read all night. Finally finished about 6:00 the next morning.
24 hours later, virtually to the minute, the earth moved bigtime--or so I thought then (February 9th, 1971).
Imagine my shock when I discovered it was only a medium-sized quake on a previously unknown fault, and the Big One could be 1,000 times stronger. OTOH, I'm sitting pretty here in the Land of Enchantment. I could wind up with beachfront property...
Okay, now I know what you meant by forgiving Independence Day, having just watched the trailer full-screen on my laptop. I came in in the middle of it last night on television, but I was half-asleep and pretty much all that registered was John Cusack and that it was obviously the ID bunch at it again.
BTW, that shot of the huge slab of coastline tilting up and up is especially effective for someone who's lived next door to the Sandias for the last decade and a half, know that I mean? ;-)
Found a similar clip on satellite in HiDef and surround. Freaking awesome.
I think we may need a fight over ID4, in which I'm sure you'll bitch-slap me. (Remember the Bill Maher ambush of Robert Loggia?)
Sextus,
My saerch engine tells me that you're right.
As schoolkids, we had frequent rumors that 'this coming Tuesday' (or whatever), California was 'falling into the sea.' Whatever we thought that meant. Now I have a visual.
Never happened so far, even though the 'major earth changes' have been overdue since the '70s. Kind of a boy crying wolf aspect to these warnings, which prompt amnesia as to the prior deadlines' coming and going without incident, only to re-predict the same thing next year.
The 'earth changes' crowd are the new Millerites. Unless it eventually happens in time for humans to see and experience it.
XI
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